Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-14

LONDON, March 13th.-The state ofthings
which has been worked up ON the Ponson-
by estate in County Cork has little short of
the character of instruction, and the same
may be said of the estate of Mr.. O'Calla-
CHAN, at Badyk of Lord Cork, at Dingle I;
Of Lord Clanricarde, at Woodford, and of
several other properties in the south and
west of Ireland. In the town of Youghal,
where, few days ago, the police in a
savage charge ran young fisherman
through the body with bayonet
the excitement for the past couple
of weeks has been unprecedented.
Youghal is the center of the Ponsonby es-
tate, and the Ponsonby estate was one of
the first in Ireland on which the tenants
adopted the plan of campaign. The land
lords of County Cork have resolved to make
this estate their battle ground against the
plan. Afraid to fight their tenants on their
own properties, they are making Ponsonby
(who is an absentee) their cat's-paw, and
have promised to back him up with their
subscriptions. They have been using the
Bankruptcy Court for the purpose of striy-
ing to get at the funded rents,
and the Bankruptcy Court, whose residing
Judge, Boyd, is landlord partisan, has
been lending itself to their purpose in
manner shameless even for an Irish Court.
1t has transformed itself into a star-cham-
Der, and has taken to summoning witnesses
from whom, by bullying and casting into
Jail (if their answers are not satisfactory,
it endeaYors to extort confessions as to who
are the tenants trustees under the plan,
and how rents have been funded.
The trouble on the Ponsonby estate has
been caused by the attempted arrests of
several tenants by messengers of the Bank
ruptcy Court, and the excitement culmi-
mated when it was known that writs were
out for the arrest of the parish priest of
Youghal, Father Keller and the neighbor-
ing parish priest, Father Murphy. Father
Keller's Bishop, a prelate of moderate poll
tics, Immediately wrote to him approving
of his attitude, and denouncing the out
rage of attempting to make the priest
spy upon his flock, and reminding him
that obedience to the dictates of justice is a
higher duty than obedience to an unjust
law. The people of Youghal have
STAYED UP NIGHT AND DAY
Since, guarding their pastors house, and
his arrest has not yet been effected. The
police who bayoneted several people and
killed the young fisherman, Hanlon, were
stoned and driven into their barracks.
The scenes at the funeral of Hanlon and
the inquest which is now proceeding have
heightened the evaporation of the people
and it will take all the exertions of their
leaders to keep them in check.
1t is probable that Father Keller will go
Dublin and surrende him
self to the Court in the hope of restoring
quiet. Thus the Government,
BY EVERY DEVICE OF BRUTAL INSULT
and petty nagging, are doing their utmost
to exasperate the people Whenever there
is public meeting called, they Instantly
proclaim it, and the people have to make
use of all sorts of midnight strategy in
order to hear the speeches of their leaders.
Their coercion bill, which they are
in this manner working up, as l have
for saying is to aim chiefly at
the destruction of trial by jury, and without
having the honesty to abolish it alto
gether, will seek to increase the arbitrary
powers of landlords and magistrates so
that they can sentence Nationalist to six
months hard labor for intimidation or
and, as if juries cannot be
packed well enough now, it will propose
legislative machinery for double packing
them.
1t does not seem to me at all likely, how
ever, that the Government will ever get
their coercion bill. The publication of
General Buffers evidence has caused an
immense sensation in England. and that,
taken together with other evidence in the
same blue book, really cuts the ground for
coercion from under their feet For
example, the Police Inspector for the
most disturbed district in Kerry declares
that the
NATIONAL LEAGUE Is THE FOE OF CRIME
AND OUTRAGE,
And most of the moonlighting is done
by common robbers, or is inspired by pri-
waite Spite And one of the chief land
Judges in Ireland, John G. Mccarthy, says
the League has protected tenants against
shocking rackrenting and intimidation on
the part of landlords, and has been great
engine for securing the just working of the
Land Acts. This is only sample of the
numerous conversions of their own wit
nesses which will stare the Government
in the face when they ask Parliament for
Coercion Act.